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how to enable magic cookies on W2K cygwin X11?
- From: David <dcorking at yahoo dot fr>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:52:22 -0500
- Subject: how to enable magic cookies on W2K cygwin X11?
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
I wanted to make my cygwin xfree86 server as secure as possible, and I
have the perception that the following would help.
1. Stop the tcp listener
2. Enable the authentication cookies
Although I did not see it documented it seems I can successfully stop
the tcp listener by modifying 1 line in my startxwin.bat as follows
start XWin -nolisten tcp
and adding this line below it
set DISPLAY=:0.0
However I trawled the man pages about the cookies, and found the X
startup scripts in SuSE Linux (which has cookies) to be complex enough
that it would be a small project to convert them to cygwin.
Can you suggest a howto or simpler example scripts to enforce cookies?
Thanks in advance.
David